this was the response from the lta ceo scott lloyd today. the lta very much at odds with watson.poke to british player naomi broady. i totally get both sides to it but i agree with heather in the sense that if we can get more people involved in the sport in the country and not just only on telly i will but if people don't only think you can play if if you are from an upper—class background, i think that would help the sport. if we have a look at some of the historical rankings now from the british men and british women's. it kinda backs up what heather watson said as she said, it is a small pool of the similar names in the men's game in the women's game. who are always there. yes. when we haven't got many players playing, maybe we'll get that many through to the top 100 and it seems to be this allusive number in tennis to make into the top 100 which i was lucky enough to do so in 2016. it is only the same as the french for example, french open this year they had 18 men in the main draw come only four left now by the second round. it is not only the british that aren't getting all